Who's the most empathetic character you've read?

Prince Myshkin

>>7656231
Jean ValJean

>>7656236
My thoughts exactly

>>7656236
Probably this.

>>7656231
oblomov

la coscienza di zeno

>>7656231
Abigall

Grenouille

>>7656967
>>7656981

From what?

>>7657051
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, main character from The Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

>>7657075

Thanks

>>7656231
Alexander Bolkonsky

Sonya

William Stoner
Leopold Bloom
Don Quixote

>>7657051
Why not Google?

The Jew of Malta.

the man with the gun ( from blindness)

>>7657239

How was Bloom empathetic for you?

Nellie from Humiliated and Insulted

>>7656231
Levine

>>7656231
Horselover Fat from PKD's Valis.

>>7657552
How is he not?

>>7657377
Lazy. Abigail is vague. Shit like that.

>>7657233
which Sonya?

>>7657075
>>7656981
Grenouille was the opposite of empathetic. Maybe personally for you (I empathize with the character too), but he wasn't generally empathetic at all.

OP's question is too ambiguous. Is it meant what character do you relate with, or what character most displays qualities of empathy?

>>7657600

Solid choice. I relate.

>>7658519

The latter

>>7657648
Hopefully Sonya from crime and punishment, which was going to be my choice.

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The underground man.

>>7656231
Oedipa Mass.
Giovanni Drogo.

>>7656231
>empathetic

Do you mean 'empathizes with other characters in their story'?
Or do you mean 'relatable'?

>>7660335

Empathizes with other characters in their story

>>7660349

That's what I thought.
I'm not sure Mario Incandenza quite fits, since it seems simply to be his nature to be kind--a sort of holy innocent like Myshkin >>7656236--as opposed to actively engaging in the mental task of empathizing with others, but I'll mention him anyway. He has one scene in particular in which he shows remarkable and un-self-conscious compassion for an otherwise rejected minor character.
Also I like >>7657239 for how Bloom seems to empathise with Stephen in particular, and Quixote's empathy for the disadvantaged.

>>7656236
reading the idiot rn and just finished up the chapter where Myshkin describes how he comforted and removed the desloation Marie felt via the children. I having felt as moved by that from either C&P or the brothers karamazov, albeit they do focus on different topics and i enjoyed them both

>>7657229
Please explain why?
>>7657233
There are a lot of fucking Sonyas who play important roles in Russian literature, be more precise.
Also, strange that nobody here mentioned:
>Harry Haller

>>7656236
not Aljosha

are you even trying?